Bowling-alley pin



'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. LUKE, OF FREDONIA, NEW YORK.

BOWLING-ALLEY PIN.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,294, dated August 2, 1,898.

Application filed May 19, k1896.

' zen of the United States, residing at Fredonia,

in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York have invented a new and useful Bowling-Alley Pin, of which the following is a specification. Y

This invention relates to bowling-alley pins; and it has for its object to provide a pin of this character with a bottom-protectin g piece formed of suitable tough and unbreakable material,which will prevent the battering and wearing away of the base of the pin, thus enabling the latter to Stand plumb.v

With the above object in view the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bowling-alley pin fitted with the improvement contemplated by the present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the pin.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the numeral l designates an ordinary bowling-alley pin of the usual form or shape and the base of which is protected by a bottom protector-disk 2, preferably formed of rawhide, but which may be made of hard rubber or any other tough non-breakable material which will stand the violent battering and jarring incident to bowling.

It is well known that the bases of bowlingpins become sobattered and Worn after short service that it is impossible to set the same up and they have to be discarded and replaced by new pins. However, by the use of the non-breakable protector-disk 2 the life of a bowling-pin is greatly increasedj and the setting up of the pins is greatly expedited by reason of the bases always remaining perfectly flat.

Serial No. 592,158. (No model.)

i the disk 2, near its edges, into the body of the The improvement contemplated by thek present invention is especially designed for use in connection with a pin having a'n annular cushion 6 Aaround the body thereof. To provide for securing the annular cushion 6 in position, the body of the pin is formed vwith an annular depression or seat 7 at a height corresponding to the point where the balls contact with the pin. Within this depression or seat are varranged one or more bands of iiexible or elastic material, such as rubber, the width of the band or the combined width of the bands being greater than the depthof the depression or seat 7. This depression or seat 7 is formed with square upper and lower shoulders 8 and has its bot- .tom curved to conform to the outer contour of the pin, whereby the outer surface of the band or bands conforms to the curvature of the pin-body, and thereby forms a surface presenting the same angles to the ball in all directions as would be presented if the cushion were not used.'

The cushion 6 is prevented from slipping by the shoulders S and serves not only to prevent indentation and mutilation of the pin, but also renders the pin to some extent noiseless.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the principle `or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, isp A bowling-alley pin, provided with a fiat base having a central circular recess the walls IOO of which are perpendicular to the base, and a bottoni-protector consisting of a disk of rawhide, indurated fiber or analogous material applied to the base of the pin and secured thereto, said protector having a cent1-alreinforcing boss or projection filling the recess in the base of the pin, and the outer edge of the protector lying flush with the outer surface of the pin, and fastening devices passing through the disk near its edge into the lo pin, substantially as described.

ln testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY Il. LUKE. Vitnesses:

A. R. MOORE, ll. A. CLARK. 

